The Impossible Museum, if it existed, would be one of the world’s great
tourist attractions.

It would house thousands of exquisite bronze statues from Ancient Greece (long
ago melted down for other uses), the most beautiful of all known Persian
manuscript books (sold off section by section in the 1970s and 1980s), the
Buddhas of Bamiyan (blown up by the Taleban in 2001), the missing Romanov
jewels taken from the last Tsar and his family, the Davidoff-Morini
Stradivarius violin (pinched from a Manhattan apartment while its owner was
in hospital) and spectacular works by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael,
Caravaggio, Vermeer